The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-14

The War Between the Press and the
Railways.
Now Work WorII

The War Between the Press and the
Railways.
New York World.
HUDSON, Wis. April Al arrived here
last week just little ahead of the biting
blasts of the L. T.. H. By the /. &. X. |
mean to imply the Int State Comnis-
sion Bill.
i noticed while en- route that the new
law had stimulated travel tn wonder
full degree. On my way from the South.
where l was during the winter. L no
ticed the sluggish arteries of trade had
already begun to palpitate and crowds
of people filled every car on every train.
said to myself, Congress has at last
solved the great question of financial
stringency and broken the great dam
that held capital captive. On the Pied
mont Air line people crushed each other
together in a mad attempt To travel. On
the Richmond and Danville and East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia as well
as the Louisville and Nashville, human
ity crowded day coaches and sleepers till
the walls cracked. At Cincinnati / could
not get a sleeping car at all, and had to
| telegraph twentyfour hours ahead to get
one in Chicago. Everywhere as far as the
| eye could reach. there seemed To be a
| wild and restless desire to get some
| where else. Several companies have to
| put on extra coaches to carry the eager
| tourists.
l arrived Just i'm time to witness the
| last moments of a Northwestern pass as
its spirit took its flight. Had postponed
my journey for single day | would
have been too late.
/ 1t was still young Life was before it.
Barely a quarter of the span of its life
had been passed when it curled up and
| expired. 1t was a cute little thing. with
| an olive complexion and large, mournful.
| upper-case eyes.
A few weeks ago l noticed that it did
not look well. 1t did not complain of ill
ness or pain, but thought detected a
condition on its back, and so hurried
home in order to be here in case il should
expire. As soon as the conductor look
ed at it and felt its pulse, he said that hs
could do nothing for it. The Interstate
Commerce law is one of thoe.
things that will havetO be tried before
we can pass upon it, presume, though
some claim that it is going to he very
difficult to pass upon it even then. Thu
thought occurred to me just after tn,
gate-keeper pushed me back yesterda,
and told me to go and get my ticket.
then first realized what it was to b.
rudely ground under the heel of a cole
corporation that is devoid of heart. devoi,
, of soul. devoid of noble thoughts, devoi,
of refined instincts. devoid of kind i'm
| Ii1ik - KIM
: nkss. devoid of bowels of compassion.
From force of habit l walked up to tin
: gate with a joyous nod and the old pass
word. only to be- coldly repulsed by tn
hired bouncer Of this heartless, soulless
= impulseless, milkless and bOwelless col
| pOratiOn.
! But the railroads will get the worst G
4 it, for know that travel on some of tn
lines has fallen of since April l. ca
see it already. l have fallen off mysel
!, since the first of the month and other
Will do the same.
That is not all. A friend of mine VIII
7 runs a paper, and whose pass got tn
hollow horn on Friday last says that hi
. columns are now open To those who wis
. to complain of the management of thi
: | road. He states that the first hot DO
? will be duly chrOnicled. and that he wi
no longer close his eyes to the wrong
we have heretofore suffered at the hand
of this unjust and ruthless vampire tina
2 has been sapping the very foundation {
> our institutions and smearing its Ions
2 dark trail with the remnants of our bes
2 mich cows, reluctantly paying for theI
: the price set at the tail of an un just an
enervating trial by a corrupt, venal am
, driveling Jury.
: He says that 1.-The time has come 4,
, | the press to arise and assert itself, an
I when the train runs off the track AN
: kills a lot of people who have led eN
: emplary lives, his paper will hereafts
tell why and how it was done. Her.
n tofOre he has not had sufficient help
a the office, he claims, and he frequent
3 ran short of type. but now he is goin
I to give all the particulars of the fir,
r smash-up that occurs on the road if tl
a paper falls into the relentless NAV Of
sheriffs sale on the following week.